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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Bill Bergin, superintendent of the Marquette Area Public Schools, has announced schedule adjustments at the end of December and early January for grades K-5 of the Fisher/Superior Hills Elementary School. “The schedule adjustments will make possible the move from Fisher Elementary School to the new Superior Hills Elementary School,” Bergin said. “This move is a major undertaking and perhaps the first one in the history of our school district to take place mid-year.” The schedule adjustments are: Wednesday, early dismissal at 11:30 a.m. for Fisher grades K-5. On Jan. 3-4, Superior Hills students will not report to school. Classes will resume on Jan. 5 as students begin the day at Fisher for a closing ceremony and are bused to the new Superior Hills Elementary Scho

60 years ago

SKANDIA – Gauthier Dairy of Skandia, owned by Mrs. Adolphus Gauthier and her sons, Edward, Henry and Leo, has been purchased by the Jilbert Dairy of Calumet. The sale makes all of the Jilbert Dairy products, well known in the Copper Country and the western Upper Peninsula, available at stores and doorsteps in the central section of the Peninsula. Manager of the Jilbert Dairy in Skandia will be David Jilbert, who formerly managed the Jilbert Dairy in Ontonagon. He and his wife Peggy will move to Skandia. Although it is under new management, the present 12 employees at the Skandia dairy will be retained.